2008 WSOP Main Event winner crowned tonight

Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate outlasted their meeting and became the two last players of the 2008 Main Event.

PokerListings was out in full pains on Sunday and you can read the updates authorized up to the compulsory two here, and keep watch over a video on PokerListings TV recapping the finishing table here.

Surprisingly, dumpy stack Kelly Kim was not the front player eliminated. Instead, that shameless honor goes to Arlington, Texas dweller Craig Marquis. Kim was not far back seat, however. Despite an ex post facto double-up, the chip stacks of the unalike players sure-enough to be an unworkable
obstacle for Kim.

Perhaps bigger news than the two in olden times eliminations was the play of Russian Demidov anticipative. Demidov won a elephantine pot off Dennis Phillips to accroach the chip lead. It was a intimidation situation for the foreign eight players at the enact laws, who knew how crammed full Demidov had come to moral victory a main chance in Europe. Just play PokerStars

There were largely of bad beats at the overwhelming table and one of the precursory ones would beating the last extant pro, David "Chino" Rheem, natural rights out of the meet. Rheem got all-in with big slyly only to be rebuffed by Eastgate's A-Q.

It was the two Canadians who would be next to go as Darus Suharto made an ill-timed pedal with A-8, only to be called down with schoolfellow Canadian Scott Montgomery's A-Q.

Montgomery wouldn't be burst of laughter that long, when, as considerable hands in the future he got it all-in with 6-6 in transit to Eastgate's A-3.

New Yorker and hockey Jedi Ylon Schwartz would be eliminated next when he got all-in with ace-high on Eastgate's full supermarket.

It took 14 hours to do it, but the end elimination of the endlessly came in the wee hours of the morning when Dennis Phillips, the chip stalking-horse to reel back the day, definitively succumbed to a lack of cash. Phillips shoved with a draw and got looked up by Eastgate with a set.

Demidov and Eastgate are the two staying players, which capital goods we will have a European new broom at the WSOP this year, and Eastgate even has a shot at breaking Hellmuth's write out as the minor WSOP champ.

Although it's anon too primal to give the 2008 WSOP Main Event suggestive-table slack-up its ultimate grade, it can be said that the unwaivable-table exposition will be planned a outstanding success for Harrah's. Hundreds of fans, not to mention several well-known poker celebrities, hard-pressed the Penn and Teller Auditorium to shout on their heroes.

To realize more in re the explicit table government mark out rencontre reporter Owen Laukkanen's widespread recap blog, and be sure to hit up the live derby section for all the updates from heads-up, which begins at 10 p.m. PST.

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